Mushroom - a Recently Recognised Dilution The Firth/Annandale Connection |
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The Firth Stud bred a number of
mushroom coloured foals from a herd of mainly chestnut & cream
chestnut dun ponies. They were registered variously as "cream",
"dark cream" & "roan", often with "silver mane & tail". It can be
seen that the Firth ponies were very closely bred & most included Annandale ponies that traced to Avening
& South Park lines, as does Lockinge Lucky Clover. We used FIRTH
HONEYCLOVER on a number of different coloured mares, including black &
bay, but only 2 mares (both chestnut base colour, produced mushroom
coloured foals. Firth Glenclova has 4 crosses of Café
au Lait whereas Firth Honeysuckle does not have any. Both Glenclova &
Honeysuckle trace to Avening Jupiter. Kellas Charmion, chestnut dam of Kellas Chink of Gold & Kellas Chiffon, traces to Houlland, Avening and South Park lines. She has 4 crosses of Avening Jupiter & 7 of Café au Lait. Grimpowood Tammy is cream chestnut dun, tracing to Houlland & South Park lines. Her sire is Grimpowood Bailey's Original, a mushroom dun but described as "light dun". |
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Speyside Golden Dawn, Bogs Golden Reve & Bogs Golden Chiro trace to Houlland lines. Hookerswell Cheyanne traces to South Park lines. Grimpowood Bailey's Original has 4 crosses of Café au Lait in his pedigree while Hardwicke Dinky has an astonishing 13 crosses of Café au Lait plus 2 of Avening Jupiter. | ||||||||||||||
Kellas Torquil was used on 2 mares, 1 black & 1 mushroom. The black mare had a black foal & the mushroom mare had a mushroom foal. Trinket has thrown chestnut dun or chestnut to a chestnut stallion & a mushroom foal to a mushroom stallion. Chiffon had a mushroom foal to a mushroom stallion. | ||||||||||||||
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Grimpowood Replica (a son of Grimpowood Bailey's Original) is now in Holland with Evaline de Gruyter who kindly sent this picture | |||||||||||||
Text & photographs copyright of Beth
Mead unless otherwise stated |
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